RE: Your site

>Hi Olav, Nice work on the guitar website. I am a newbie to guitars
>...your site helps. I have a question on scales though, wonder if you
>can help me. Ionian is a whole-whole-half-whole-whole-whole-half scale,
>correct? An A Ionian starts on 6th string, 5th fret, correct? An A
>Dorian would still start with 6th string, 5th fret, am I correct? I
>found a site (cyberfret) that tells me otherwise ... got me all
>confused.
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>Oh, noticed that you're a lawyer ... well, hi from a fellow lawyer from
>afar :-)
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Thanks for nice words. Your description of the Ionian scale, which is the same
as the standard Major scale, is correct. But when you are referring to frets,
I am not sure what you mean. If you think of A-major (Inonian A),it will start
on the 6th string 5th fret. I you change mode and stay with the same root,
then A-Dorian would start on 5th fret. But the Dorian that is closely related
to A-Ionian is B-dorian, and the you will start at either 5th string 2nd fret
or 6th string 7th fret. Which of my pages is causing this confusion?

(By the way, I am copying the answer to my guitar-blog at
http://olavsguitar.blogspot.com/ )